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James Dawson
Indecent Exposure
North Shields Police Station, UK
June 9, 1902Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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Lawrence Armstrong
Theft
North Shields Police Station, UK
September 30, 1915Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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Mustapha Irola
False Pretenses
North Shields Police Station, UK
August 19, 1904Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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William Stanley Moore
Dealing opium
Central Police Station, Sydney
May 1, 1925Sydney Living Museums
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Isabella Hindmarch
Theft
Newcastle, UK
Circa 1871-1873Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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Charles Ormston
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Circa 1930sTyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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Herbert Ellis
Central Police Station, Sydney
Circa 1920Sydney Living Museums
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Andrea Laudano
Larceny
North Shields Police Station, UK
July 21, 1904Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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Ellen ("Nellie") Kreigher
Murder
Central Police Station, Sydney
July 13, 1923Sydney Living Museums
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James Chase
Obtaining money by false pretenses
North Shields Police Station, UK
January 22, 1916Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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William Morrissey
Sleeping Outdoors
North Shields Police Station, UK
July 11, 1904Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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London
Circa 1880SSPL/Getty Images
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Digambar Badge
One of the attempters on Gandhi's life, afterwards released for cooperating with the prosecution
India
May 12, 1948 Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images
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Catherine O'Neill
Theft
New York
1906 Library of Congress
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Cachar, Assam, India
Circa 1870
Under British rule, members of local tribes and ethnic groups deemed "criminal" were required to check in with local police weekly and be processed.Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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James Davit
Obtaining money by false pretenses
Newcastle, UK
Circa 1871-1873Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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Tom O'Day, alias Joe Chancellor
Member of the Hole in the Wall gang
Circa 1900Library of Congress
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Lewis Powell (aka Payne)
Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator
Aboard the U.S.S. Saugus
April 27, 1865Bureau of Prisons/Getty Images
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Lizzie Cardish
Arson
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
1906Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images
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Nathan Leopold
Murder
Joliet Prison, Illinois
1924Topical Press Agency Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Francis Flood
Theft
Central Police Station, Sydney
May 5, 1920Sydney Living Museums
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Charles S. Jones
Larceny
North Shields Police Station, UK
September 15, 1914Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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Alice Cooke
Bigamy and theft
State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, New South Wales
1922Sydney Living Museums
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John Gumis
Larceny
North Shields Police Station, UK
October 5, 1903Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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Valerie Lowe
Breaking and entering
Central Police Station, Sydney
February 15, 1922Sydney Living Museums
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Dutch Schultz
Gangster
1931Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Jean Baptiste Troppmann
Murder
Paris
1869Apic/Getty Images
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From left: Leonetti, Guiffaut, and Galendemi (first names unspecified)
Bank robbery and murder
Marseilles, France
Circa 1930FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Mafia shootout suspects
Regio Calahia, Italy Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images
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James E Howe
Theft
North Shields Police Station, UK
September 19, 1906Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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1889Harlingue/Roger Viollet/Getty Images
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Jane Forbes
Larceny
North Shields Police Station, UK
January 26, 1905Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr
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Walter Smith
Breaking and entering
Central Police Station, Sydney
December 24, 1924Sydney Living Museums
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